Young-adult Quotes

The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the ...

The funny thing about mundies," Jace said, to nobody in particular, "is how obsessed with magic they...

She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It l...

Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds.Hugo?" Luke bl...

The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know w...

I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent."Cla...

Aren't we forever?

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to...

You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love. - Keiran

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more...

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levere...

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really r...

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Bu...

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms b...

I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer an...

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

Beautiful day out there,” I said, perching on the stool and crossing my legs. “It’s autumn, Sunday, ...

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it ...

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root i...

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someo...

Isn’t that what true romance issupposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someon...

But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping...

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking tha...

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a sno...

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet...

The marks we leave are too often scars.

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...

Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell.”“To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said...

People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no...

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch...

The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have di...

At Tara in this fateful hour,I place all Heaven with its power,And the sun with its brightness,And t...

Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn't forget ...

As I pulled aside the linen curtain to the back room, I heard the front door open again. If it was C...

There were many versions of Gansey, but this one had been rare since the introduction of Adam's tami...

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't see...

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he me...

I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the...

Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful o...

As the sun shines low and red across the water, I wade into the ocean. The water is still high and b...

Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand...

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to...

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever ...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to ever...

I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that ...

Norman picked up a sketch, glanced at it, then put it back down on the table. "I saw Bea Williamson ...

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better...

You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movemen...

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A ...

Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & ...

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the...

Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that...

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

We could do it, you know.""What?""Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we coul...

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I...

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no c...